The new red scare

Immigrants! The new bogeyman, declared Public Enemy #1 by the Republican red-headed meglomanic.

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Is This Ukraine War Photo A Fake?

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Photographer Dmytro Muravskiy has stood by this photo -- and is threatening to sue his detractors Amos Chapp...

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Could A Looming Fiscal Crisis Doom America's Military Edge?

Loren B. Thompson, National Interest : How A Looming Fiscal Crisis Could Doom America's Military Edge The problem with defense profes...

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Is The Syrian Government In Name Only?

Alsouria Tobias Schneider, War On The Rocks : The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think In a recent interview conduct...

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 31, 2016

Carol Pires, New York Times : Rousseff’s Impeachment Changes the Government, Not the Politics BRASÍLIA — The last photograph of Luiz Iná...

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World News Briefs -- August 31, 2016 (Evening Edition)

Reuters: Brazil's Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer sworn in Brazil's Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday, endin...

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Japan Defense Ministry Wants A Bigger Budget To Counter China And North Korea

Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force tanks © Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters Japan Times : Defense Ministry requests ¥5.1 trillion for fiscal 2017...

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Top U.S. Commander In The Middle East Warns Iran Of Aggressive Behavior

The Hill: US general warns Iran the US Navy will protect itself in the Arabian Gulf The top U.S. commander in the Middle East warned Ira...

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Another Iranian General Is Killed In Syria

Reuters : Iranian Revolutionary Guard general killed in Aleppo A brigadier general from Iran's Revolutionary Guards had been killed ...

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Pentagon Rejects Russian Claims That Their Air Strike Killed Islamic State Leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani

ABC News: US Rejects Russia's Claim of Credit for ISIS Leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani's Airstrike Death Calling it a “joke,” U.S...

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Another US Navy Littoral Combat Ship Breaks Down

USS Coronado (LCS-4) conducts operations during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016 in July. US Navy Photo Defense News : Another LCS Breaks...

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What Happens If A U.S. Presidential Candidate Dies Before The Election?

Democratic U.S presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) and U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump © Reuters U.S News And ...

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Donald Trump To Visit Mexico To Visit Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto

FOX News : Trump to visit Mexico, meet with Pena Nieto ahead of immigration speech Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to...

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Has Been Impeached

Daily Mail: Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is kicked out of office after losing impeachment trial over financial corruption * The Se...

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World News Briefs -- August 31, 2016

Reuters : Brazil's Senate dismisses Rousseff for breaking budget laws Brazil's Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from offi...

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 31, 2016

South Korean army's K-2 tanks take part in a live-firing drill at a fire training field in Yangpyeong, South Korea. Reuters IBTimes ...

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Russia's Military Trains For World War 3

© Sputnik/ Valeriy Melnikov Simon Saradzhyan, National Interest : Yes, Russia's Military Is Training for a 'Mega War.' That I...

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A Chinese - U.S. War Will Be Fought With Missiles

Military vehicles carrying DF-21D ballistic missiles roll to Tiananmen Square during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the ...

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Hot potatoes piling up on WI DNR's partisan, polluted plate

I thought I'd post what's soon to immerse the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - - the once-proud science and public health...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: No Military Solution To South China Sea Dispute

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry adjusts his ear phones during a joint news conference with India's External Affairs Minister Sushma ...

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Tweet For Today

One legged U.S Army Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan http://pic.twitter.com/Q0uO8r1uw4 — Military (@MilitaryEarth) August 31, 2016

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Picture Of The Day

Osprey Dust Marines set up security around the back of an MV-22 Osprey during the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s composite training unit...

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What Does China Want In Syria

Rear Admiral Guan Youfei (C), director of the newly created Foreign Affairs Office of China's National Defence Ministry, speaks during ...

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The Labour Party purge

The ongoing Labour Party purge is an extraordinary thing to behold. Not only is it a demonstration that a bunch of out-of-touch Labour Par...

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These Are The Current Russian Goals In Syria

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Ian Parmeter, The Interpreter: Where the Russian intervention in Syria is headed Russian President Vladimi...

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U.S. Strategy To Wage War Against The Islamic State Has Resulted In Another Conflict in Syria

VICE News : The US is pissing off everyone in northern Syria When US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter asked Turkey on Monday to "sta...

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Turkey Rejects U.S. Claims Of A Ceasefire With Syrian Kurd Militia

Al Jazeera: Turkey denies reaching ceasefire with Kurdish forces Minister rejects US announcement of ceasefire deal between Turkish mil...

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Report: North Korea Sets Up Special Military Units With 'Nuclear Backpacks'

These backpacks – pictured some years ago – were likely filled with fake explosives. Daily Star Radio Free Asia: North Korea Sets Up Spe...

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Is Another North Korean Purge Underway?

Reuters: North Korea executes vice premier in latest purge: South North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked t...

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Both Russia And The U.S. Are Taking Credit For The Death Of The Islamic State's #2 In An Air Strike

BBC : IS leader Adnani: Russia says its air strike killed him A Russian air strike in Syria killed the chief strategist of so-called Isl...

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Smearing for sympathy

Over the last few years I've written numerous articles decrying the appalling decline in the standard of political debate and outlini...

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